My cable management situation - videos.trom.tf/w/9EAfUZR868Dc9…
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Good piece by John Oliver about the situation in Gaza youtu.be/pJ9PKQbkJv8
Israel-Hamas War: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver discusses the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.Connect with Last Week Tonight online... Subscribe to the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel fo...YouTube
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Some gallery on deviant to think on deviantart.com/quilesart/galle… - I think it's relevant to all this "shitshow" in general
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Ah yes! I know the artist. We pull such illustrations from RSS sources to our tromnews.com/illustrations/ project.
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Video and Music, two pieces of media almost entirely owned by a few giant companies. And they only allow you to enjoy them if you trade your attention primarily (watch ads), or data, or currency. That in a world where the digitization of media allows us to copy and share them infinitely at almost no cost in terms of resources.That being said, you can still access these via trade-free interfaces.
For desktop use:
FreeTube https://freetubeapp.io - to access Youtube without ads, data collection or limitations.
Nuclear Player https://nuclear.js.org/ - to listen to any song that's out there. Again no ads, no data collection, no bullshit.For mobile (android):
NewPipe https://newpipe.net/ - for a trade-free Youtube
InnerTune https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.zionhuang.music/ - listen to any song you want without trading for it.
We went out again with the telescope and we saw Saturn, Jupiter, and parts of the Milky Way. Here are some photos - astonishing that they are made with a phone (Pixel 4A 4G).
Me and Sasha:
Edited a little bit the colors, light, and details. But not that much, a few minutes editing.
An "arm" of the Milky Way:
Improved a bit the colors and contrast. Not by much.
Our TROM telescope (no editing):
And the coolest of them all, Georgi with a head-lamp :)
No editing, straight out of the phone, believe it or not.
Am impressed. So fucking cool: great experience to enjoy the night sky with our own eyes and a telescope, and low effort great photos :).
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Took a photo last night of the sky and I just fucking realized that I captured the Andromeda Galaxy by mistake!
If you zoom in you can see it a bit. WOW!
Tonight I will go out to take a bunch of photos, this time in RAW, to see what I can capture :D. These things excite me so much! These fucking things are real. HOW!?
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@Rokosun has fully rebuilt our TROMjaro Welcome app from scratch. Now it is a lot more elegant in terms of the code, and opens up a lot more possibilities for us to integrate more features into it. Something that we will do in the very near future.TROMjaro is a Trade-Free Operating System. No ads, no data collection, no free trials, no bullshit.
My astrophotography adventure has begun :D - @Roma pay attention :)
Just took a photo now, from our terrace. Half Moon and with light pollution. Not ideal at all.
Device: Pixel 4A
The unedited JPG from the Pixel:
Awesome! No work, just let the phone do its thing.
Now here's the RAW from the Pixel 4A, that I edited for 20 minutes in Darktable:
The sheer number of stars is unbelievable! And the core of the MilkyWay was on the opposite side of the planet....imagine how it would look like when the core is visible and the moon is "invisible"!
I LOVE this! This is reality folks! Above our head.
So from now on I have setup my Pixel to take both RAW and JPEG. Just in case I wanna retouch some photos :). How awesome!
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The Smartphone World and how I cope with it - tiotrom.com/2023/11/the-smartp…
This is my 20 years journey into the world of the phone. I was here when it started, I was amazed by it, then angry at it. And now I found a way to tame it. To transform my phone into my friend, and protect myself from the pile of shit that the phones are streaming on a daily basis into people’s brains.
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Amazing article @tio@social.trom.tf
I can relate to that so much.
Your solutions and alternatives are jewels.
Thanks!!!
I can relate to that so much.
Your solutions and alternatives are jewels.
Thanks!!!
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At the risk of seeming persnickety, I must remark that the pile of poop streaming into people's brains first streamed *out* of someone else's brains. Cheap and easy electronic communications have allowed those with shit for brains to influence and taint the rest.
The big tech mafia and the government mafia start out promoting delusive nonsense to get people supporting their agendas. After time, they start believing their own delusions, and so the gaslighting and insanity grows worse. In time a culture grew in which most people had their beliefs formed from popular opinion, rather than personal inquiry. Almost everything commonly accepted as true today is half-truth or outright nonsense.
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I installed /e/ OS on my old Galaxy S7 from 2016:
Really surprised to see that they support this model. Basically I made it functional again. I will try to replace its camera from another S7 that is bricked. I will document everything and it will all merge into a big article about mobile phones ;).
I really like my Pixel 4a with CalyxOS. Control control control. Am excited to start my astrophotography adventure with it :).
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Nice! I mainly use a Samsung S7 Active which is just moderately deGoogled / cleaned out with ADB. Though I do also have a standard S7 which I've much more aggressively stripped down to a bare minimum of packages and it boots up so super fast now in just a few seconds 🤓
I have considered trying /e/OS before, but didn't want to lose access to the default camera app.
I recommend /e/ OS because that updates Android to version 10. Samsung got stuck at 8. Plus if you use OpenCamera then that can be even better than Samsung's camera. Maybe install it beforehand and play with it.
I have played with both Open Camera and A Better Camera before, and found that they both could be good in certain circumstances but not as reliable performing as the default app and maybe missing some feature or other which I forget. But it's been years since then, so maybe I should give Open Camera another look sometime.
Yes true. For my Pixel 4a too, I much prefer the Pixel Camera than any other camera despite using CalyxOS. Does a much better job....unfortunately there are no better alternatives.
And tbh, Android 7/8 is already new and fancy to me. I've used the S7 Active for some years just for GPS, but only in the past year or so switched it to being my actual phone too. Before that I always used my much more compact S4 mini with its (very cheaply) replaceable battery. But it got to the point where too many apps stopped supporting the Android 4.4 on that, otherwise I would still be using it today. Perfect just as a straightforward and unobtrusive phone.
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The newer Android versions are also becoming increasingly locked down with less control available to the user which also makes me less keen to update to them. And in general I'm quite opposed to the modern trend of increasingly frequent forced updates of software systems with no real benefits to the end user. But I still agree that it can be seen as a potential benefit of /e/OS 👍
Our TROMjaro Theme Switcher has been fully re-written by @Rokosun in Nim and the owlkettle library. Our theme switcher is now made in a more sane way.When you select a theme it will remain highlighted using the accent color of the selected theme. The notifications are also improved and you can see the theme icon in the notification preview.
Roko had to learn all of these from scratch, in order to make it. He is always improving our custom TROMjaro scripts and on top of that he is a proper human being: calm, nice, smart, down to Earth, and so friendly. How awesome that he is helping TROM so much without asking anything in return. That0s becuase he does not "work for TROM", we all work together to build something important and useful!
Best Android (nonroot) system wide adblocker?
For the love of the internet gods, I cannot find a good one. Adaway, personalDNS Filter, PIA VPN, and more, are not doing a good job at blocking the ads inside apps or websites.
So, anyone knows a better alternative?
So much easier on desktop (Linux).
EDIT: Seems like Blokada, the "free" version, is still the best so far. Tho it advertises their "pro-bro" version.
@Aaron gave me his old Pixel 4a 4G and now I am doing the unthinkable: I am changing my phone! For the first time since 2016. I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 since 2016 and because I do not use my phone that much I did not care. But now that I have a new-old phone, I will go for it. Especially since my S7 started to crumble.
I have already installed CalyxOS on the Pixel and so far so perfect. I will make a detailed article about it all, but yah....happy to use an unused device and make good use of it! :)
It even has an Astrophotography mode so I can already start with that. Here are some quick samples form not-so-great-days to take such photos:
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!Friendica Admins Is it really ok to have over 100.000 Inspect deferred worker queue? Everything on my instance works great, but that number is immense. These are the deferred ones paste.trom.tf/ejuhetucoc.apach… - I still do not understand if it is fine and I should ignore them or there is something I can do about them.
EDIT: I have submitted an issue here github.com/friendica/friendica… - can be helpful for others too,
Massive Deferred worker queues · Issue #13570 · friendica/friendica
I want to figure out what's up with this. I have over 100.000 processes in the Inspect deferred worker queue for the past may many months. Here are some commands I used from this issue #13241 : sel...GitHub
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@Tio interesting, many contact related tasks, updates and create, wonder why those get deferred.
But I am of no help here, just curious like you.
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hm yeah - my server can for sure handle it all. i7-6700 CPU 3.40GHz, 8 cores and 32GB of RAM plus 32GB swap. I doubt it is an issue of the server being unable to cope with these.
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Deferred tasks are background tasks that failed for an external reason (remote contact not reachable for example) and will be retried at a later date, with increasing delay each subsequent retrial. As a result they don't take up any resources while they're waiting for their due date.
Via github.com/friendica/friendica…
That's very good to know. External reasons.
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Since the latest changes and optimizations I did some 2-3 weeks ago for Friendica, our instance became so fast it is unbelievable. Go from one page to another in less than 1-2 seconds, at times it feels instant. Amazing! #tromstuff
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Well first of all I am using a daemon and not cron jobs via this tutorial nequalsonelifestyle.com/2022/0…
Then In /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf and add Under [mariadb]:
\#enable the old query optimizer setting
optimizer_use_condition_selectivity = 1
optimizer_switch = 'rowid_filter=off'You can also add to the same file under mariadb and mysql:
innodb_buffer_pool_size = 20G
innodb_log_buffer_size = 256M
innodb_log_file_size = 1G
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I made a huge article about how I backup TB of files from 4 laptops for just 13 Euros a month tiotrom.com/2023/10/the-best-b… - and how I discovered an amazing app, Kopia, that makes the backup process such a breeze. :)
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Very good point Tio, and great artworks! Yeah, that's exactly my thoughts, like wtf, they bomb civilians in Gaza like crazy, and it's ok for EU and US, they even help doing this. And people opinions are divided, some are for Palestine others for Israel when in fact all of them committing brutal crimes and one side is no better than the other. Of course Gaza it is like an open prison for many many years already, which is also very cruel and inhumane. I was also quite sadden to see the reaction of EU... But that's politics. Good point, not to trust or even take seriously any politician, it's all corrupted and fake. They twist everything as its more beneficial for them.
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You just pretty much summed it up in this blog post, politics is full of lies and propaganda man..... Every now and then I see these images of the atrocities caused by wars, on the internet, newspaper, etc..... be it in Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, etc.... Does it really matter which place is getting hit? Innocent people are getting hurt, and many die because of these wars..... This is very sad and awful...... 😔
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